Jianghuxing

On the twenty-first day of the first month of spring, amnesty was granted to the world.

The brethren in the state seemed to be numb, and opened the prison with a blank face, and took the same uncaring rogues and converts outside the city and let them go. Every year, the state spends a lot of effort and energy to encircle and suppress the bad guys who have the slightest signs, but they often start to release people because of the arrival of the new year before they have time to complete the formalities.

Some of the old prisoners who entered the palace for the second time and the third time were all familiar with the brothers in the prison, and when they left, they even said with a hippie smile: "Thank you for your good food and drink all year round! You can eat better in prison than outside in prison." The brother in charge of the escort impatiently urged: "Get out of here, next time I catch you, Lao Tzu will cut you with a knife, and make you eat so much without a head or face." Then the old regulars and the brethren nodded goodbye and went away in a mess with the other prisoners who had been released.

When I returned from training with the brothers who had been trapped in the camp, I met the fierce-looking prisoners on the way, and the two groups of people met on the narrow road of the country, and the people on both sides were startled. I took the lead in pulling out the knife, and the brothers followed the knife and gun one after another, and the prisoner who hit the head waved his hand again and again, and said busily: "Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, we have just been released to go back to the countryside to farm!"

Li Zhong stood up and asked, "You said that you were released, but there are procedures?" The trembling man who hit the head took out the relevant documents from his arms and handed them to Li Zhong, and said with a flattering smile: "Amnesty, amnesty." After Li Zhong confirmed that it was correct, he reprimanded them for two more sentences, and then turned around and reported to me: "Shunye, it's true, Emperor Laozi has made amnesty again."

I had a headache and motioned for the brothers to let them go. The prisoners swooped through the middle of the road, and a large group of people walked for a long time before they completely passed, and among them some of the guys who had been caught in the camp and went out for military training were some of the guys who were making trouble in the local area, and they did not dare to raise their heads when they saw our familiar faces, and they hurried away.

Wu Yanji said beside me: "Damn, every year I work hard to catch people, the emperor is good, he pretends to be a good person in the New Year, so that the people can read his good son, and he will release all the prisoners in the world without caring about anything, so that we will have to work again in the second year." I'm not afraid of this effort, but once you fight with these bastards, you will inevitably have brothers killed and injured, if Emperor Lao Tzu does this again, we won't arrest people in the future, see one and kill the other, fuck let these bastards who know about trouble all day and night know that we are in the camp!".

After Wu Yanji finished speaking, the brothers applauded, in fact, I thought so in my heart, but as their boss, I couldn't openly support their thoughts, so I had to reprimand them against my heart: "We are trapped in the camp to go into battle to kill the enemy and charge into battle, is it to the guys to wave their swords at the common people?" The brothers were unconvinced by my training, but they couldn't say anything.

At dinner that night, I slapped the table and called out to Lu Bu: "If Emperor Laozi does this again, after we fall into the camp, we will only catch the dead and not the live!

Lu Bu smiled and listened to my complaints, and only said one sentence to completely shut me up: "Do you want to be Ding Yuanhu?"

Sure enough, his words were more lethal than anything else. Ding Yuan's old guy shouted all day long to kill them all, both military merits and deterrence crime, he just couldn't figure out the best of both worlds, Lu Bu just didn't execute it. Of course, Lu Bu has his reasons, in his opinion, if all the criminals are killed with a stick, they will only kill the people of the state and the people are sparsely populated. The people and the population are the primary productive forces of agriculture, and if all the people are dead, who will still farm the land and grow crops, and when the time comes, tens of thousands of people in the state will open their mouths and wait for food

Since the Zhang Jiao brothers unveiled the rod, in recent years, there have been wars all over the country, and production has suffered great damage, such as the Central Plains, where there are many wars, almost no one farms, because the crops are planted all year round, either the yellow turban thieves robbed or the government requisitioned them. Even if these unlucky people have escaped, they will fight a battle casually, but once the soldiers and horses have passed, there will be no grass, and after tossing and turning several times, the common people would rather starve to death than plan to farm again.

This was also the case at first, before I joined the army, didn't I follow Mr. Tao to Dongshiya to eat because I couldn't survive, and then I didn't know if I was lucky or unlucky, I bumped into Zhang Liao's dog son and was beaten by him, but fortunately, Zhang Liao's dog son met Lu Bu and was beaten by him, and this meal was finished, just like some kind of ritual was completed, our brothers and sisters were tied together with one life, all the way to this day.

However, under Lu Bu's rule, the state gradually improved. Lu Bu will never kill the people who have made mistakes, often just execute the villain who took the lead in making trouble, acquit the other people, encourage them to go home and farm, and ensure that the state will not pay taxes and miscellaneous taxes to scare their food, and personally lead the army to protect the safety of the people in the state, just like Kebi was able to loot the border at the end of last year, obviously only need to wait for them to grab enough and leave on their own, but Lu Bu didn't agree, he had to send troops to attack, and as a result, he himself was pinned down by Ding Yuan and couldn't get out, so he sent me and Zhang Liao to fight with Kebineng。 Although the loss was a bit miserable in the end, but at least I told Kebi that it was okay not to come to the state to find it unpleasant, if you can fight but you will fight, if you just want to make a little money, go to a place where you can make a little money, and come to the state to do these to take your life as a capital

At the same time, the people on the border also took a reassuring pill, once something happened to Jinyang, they would indeed be managed, and they would never be thrown away as abandoned pawns just for self-preservation, so that the people on the border and the state worked together to face the foreigners, even if they suffered from the war, they also had the determination to resume production, not like the border of Youzhou, after being looted by Kebineng, the Youzhou Thorn History Department ignored it, and hated that many people actually took the initiative to vote for the Kebi Neng Department, and followed the robbers together, resulting in a large number of population loss on the Youzhou border, Ding Yuan praised Lu Bu and praised him for his long-term vision.

Lu Bu often said that he had to let the people live before they could want to live, and if you forced them to die, starvation was death, rebellion was death, and death inside and outside was death, so why not fight for it? Therefore, it is necessary to eliminate the concerns of the people from the source, and protecting the territory and the people is not a blank word, but to think for the people in front and help them resist those powerful forces that cannot be stopped by themselves.

I often think that Lu Bu said that these truths are not very difficult to understand, and people like me can understand it, my brothers also understand, and the whole state understands it, and in this turbulent torrent, living a small life in peace and stability, although it is not very rich, but at least the life can be guaranteed. But with such a simple and easy-to-understand truth, why didn't the officials and people of other prefectures and counties understand it? The Han Dynasty was so vast, but there was only one Lu Bu in the thirteen prefectures, and if there were a few more people like him, then peace in the world would no longer be a beautiful dream.

I told Zhang Liao about this idea, and Zhang Liao kept nodding his head and echoed: "There is no need to come out with so many Fengxian who are both civil and military, and one or two emperors will burn high incense!" Lu

Bu listened to it and said with a smile: "Isn't there still Cao Mengde, his background and future deeds are definitely above me, and having him is a blessing for the Han Dynasty, and it is a ray of dawn in this dim and dull era."

I asked, "But why does the emperor Lao Tzu have to carry out amnesty for the world every year? This kind of thing is not only done when the new emperor succeeds to the throne?" Zhang Liao followed what I said all night, and he couldn't hold it anymore at this time, and retorted casually: "The dog son is uneducated, not only the new monarch ascended the throne, but also the change of the era name, the establishment of the queen and the crown prince, natural disasters and man-made disasters can be amnesty for the world, and it seems that the emperor has a broad mind and benevolence. I

thought about it and said: "Last year, there was a tengu eating moon, and the imperial court made a special trip to hold a Buddhist forum in Luoyang White Horse Temple for this purpose...... I can't count how many years, I do this every year, he is a good person and is addicted to it, but the specific work and work below us have no prestige at all, the cost of crime is so low, whoever commits a crime can be released the next year, then wouldn't everyone have to make trouble?"

Zhang Liao said proudly: "If you say that you are uneducated and don't admit it, you don't understand this, right? I was stunned when I heard this, and asked, "Which ten evils?" Zhang Liao became even more proud, hung up the bookbag and put the master in it and said: "One is rebellious, the second is rebellious, the third is rebellious, the fourth is surrendered, the fifth is evil and rebellious, the sixth is unmoral, the seventh is disrespectful, the eighth is unfilial, the ninth is unrighteous, and the tenth is civil strife." I asked, "What do you mean?" Zhang Liao sighed, feeling that this was forced to pretend to be in vain, and said in the vernacular: "First, it is an attempt to overthrow the government and government, which is to seek rebellion; second, it is to destroy the royal family and temple, which is a great rebellion; third, fourth, it is to betray the imperial court, it is to rebel; fifth, it is to beat and murder parents and elders, which is evil; sixth, it is to kill three people who are not guilty of capital crimes or dismember the human body, which is unjust; sixth, it is to offend the dignity of the emperor Laozi and to be disrespectful; eighth, it is to have fun or marry during the period of filial piety, which is unfilial; nineth, it is unrighteous for officials to kill each other, deceive teachers and destroy ancestors; and tenth, it is adultery among relatives and civil strife.

I heard a chill down my spine and muttered, "That really shouldn't be forgiven." But even so, Emperor Lao Tzu was still too diligent in carrying out amnesty. Lu Bu, who had not spoken, answered at this time: "You don't understand this, many times the amnesty is not to exempt criminals, but to combat criminals more accurately." Even

Zhang Liao didn't understand at this time, and stared at Lu Bu with idiotic eyes like me, hoping that he could say a reason that would convince us that he was not stupid. Lu Bu looked at the two of us for a long time before he said: "The so-called amnesty, first, there were regulations that could not be pardoned at the beginning, just like those who were heinous just said, and after exempting others from their crimes, they can be free to punish those who take the lead in making trouble. Second, if you don't pardon, the attack is too broad, just like the people and yellow turban thieves who have rebelled for many years, they may have rebelled at first because they were instigated or lost land and food, and then solved some of the leaders through war, what should the rest of these people do? At this time, it is necessary to forgive their sins, which is called not to blame the public, otherwise under the fierce pursuit and fierce fighting, these people who were originally just retinues and participants will be forced to become outright criminals, and without a choice, they can only carry the court to the end, to put it bluntly, we will have many more unnecessary battles. Or in the history of the change of dynasty, after the enemy is defeated, if there are still many remnants of the forces under his command, then the means of amnesty must be adopted, otherwise, they will have no way to live, and they can only unite more closely and become a very difficult and new hostile force under the new regime.

Zhang Liao and I didn't understand what I heard, and Lu Bu smiled when he saw this: "Actually, it's a bit of a poor thing, if you have the opportunity to meet you in the future, you will naturally understand." "

When Lu Bu said this, it was the spring of the fourth year of Zhongping, who knew that when our Chang'an army was defeated five years later, everything would be fulfilled.